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Irinej Gavrilovic elected for new patriarch and other news

January 22, 2010
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This just in: new Serbian Patriarch has been elected – it’s Irinej Gavrilovic of Nis, most moderate of all three final candidates. I guess we should feel lucky.
In other news…
Like most European countries, Serbia is preparing for the most important event of the year, the Eurovision. Instead of national competition this year, the deciders said the best thing [...]

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A tourist’s observations about Eurosong

May 27, 2008

B92 made an interview with a passer-by and he summed up the ESC pretty good. So let’s hear what this fellow Sir Terry Wogan has to say:

via Srdjan Mitrovic
Also, what do you think about this year’s oppening by Ms Serifovic? Our TV presenters didn’t dare say much about it in great detail, except for that [...]

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The end of Eurovizija in Beograd

May 25, 2008

Three great play-by-play posts covering last night’s Eurosong contest: Nosemonkey, Douglas Muir of Fistfull of Euros and BBC’s Fiona Pryor. This sums it all up very well, even though thy don’t agree on all acounts. But the main thing is that the fun was there, the organization was great according to a couple of journalists [...]

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Do you feel Laka?

May 24, 2008

I tricked both fauna and flora
With my favorite prank
That life did not begin in the sea
But of love
The coolest lyric in the whole Eurovision competition this year did not manage to get into the English translation of the song – Pokusaj by Elvir Lakovic Laka – the eccentric Bosnian representative. Laka will be singing in [...]

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Eurovision – the drug of the nation

May 19, 2008

There are few things one finds out about Eurovision when the competition is held in one’s city.
First of all is that there’s a whole bunch of Eurovision blogs following every single move of the contestants. My feed reader is set up to pick up any mention of ‘belgrade’ at various blog search engines, and lately, [...]

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An attempt of Borat humour

May 15, 2008

When Borat did Kazakhstan some time ago, it was rude but it was funny. And it was clear why the Kazakhs didn’t like it.
Now the Spanish comedian and late night tv host Andreu Buenafuente is trying to do the same thing with Belgrade:

Andreu already made a mockery out of the Eurovision contest (which is not [...]

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Official Serbian Eurovision logo (updated!)

October 2, 2007

Another update: it seems that the winner logo isn’t the winner logo. It’s only one of a thousand combinations – but someone over at RTS decided to present the entire concept with the image under: plum, trumphet and hotlips. Ok, the damage isn’t that big in that case. But, please, RTS people, don’t do this [...]

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Riding the last Eurovision wave

May 15, 2007

The bloc voting thing has been a major subject in the non-balkan blogs in the ESC aftermath. It seems as if the Western European countries finally realized for sure that it will take much more than an average Eurovision song for any of them to win or at least to be a worthy opponent. It [...]

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Place your bets – the Eurovision is about to start

May 12, 2007

Marija Serifovic’s song really doesn’t do it for me. I don’t like that quasy pop genre, lyrics, her voice, looks, anything really. But apparently I’m in minority (what else is new?).
BBC claims we have good chances of success (via Yahti), Reluctant Dragon says that her semifinals performance was one of the best in recent years, [...]

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Eurovision Mumbo Jumbo

March 6, 2007

The biggest trash competition is nearing on us and we have yet to choose our representative. One would think that, since Montenegro is out of the picture we should have an easy task of choosing the Serbian Eurosong/Eurovision representative ahead of us. But the competition is really tough, as always.
So what do we have this [...]

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